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Cleavon Little

Cleavon Little

Highest Rated:
89% Blazing Saddles (1974)
Lowest Rated:
10% Once Bitten (1985)
Birthday:
Jun 1, 1939
Birthplace:
Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA
Bio:
Born in Oklahoma, African American actor Cleavon Little was raised in California where he attended San Diego College. Trained for a performing career at the American Academy of Dramatic Art, Little made his off-Broadway debut in the 1968 political satire MacBird In 1970, he won a Tony award for his…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 10% - 89%
Number of Movies: 31
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
1993 Perfect Harmony
  • Actor
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1991 Perfect Harmony
  • Actor
  • Director
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1991 In the Nick of Time
  • Actor
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1991 83% Separate But Equal
  • Carter
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1989 Murder by Numbers
  • David Shelby
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1989 31% Fletch Lives
  • Calculus
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1988 Gore Vidal's Lincoln
  • Actor
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1985 The Gig
  • Marshall Wilson
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1985 10% Once Bitten
  • Sebastian
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1984 Surf II: The End of the Trilogy
  • Daddy O
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1984 Guerrilla Salvaje
  • Actor
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1984 E Nick: A Legend In His Own Mind
  • Actor
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1984 Toy Soldiers
  • Buck
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1983 The Salamander
  • Actor
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1982 Double Exposure
  • Actor
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1982 Jimmy the Kid
  • Herb Lovejoy
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1981 High Risk
  • Rockney
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1981 Salamander
  • Maj. Carl Malinowsky
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1981 Surf 2
  • Actor
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1981 Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
  • Actor
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1980 The Sky Is Gray
  • Actor
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1979 Scavenger Hunt
  • Jackson
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1978 FM
  • Prince
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1977 Once Upon a Brothers Grimm
  • Actor
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1974 89% Blazing Saddles
  • Bart
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1971 75% Vanishing Point
  • Super Soul
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1971 The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
  • Hawthorne Dooley
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1970 Cotton Comes to Harlem
  • Lo Boy
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1969 38% John and Mary
  • Film Director
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1968 What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
  • Phil
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1959 The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
  • Actor
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    1. Lyle: Come on, boys. Where's your spirit? I don't hear no singing. When you was slaves, you sang like birds. Come on, how about a gold ole nigger work song?
    2. Bart: I get no kick from champagne. [back up singers vocalize] 'Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all So tell me why should it be true That I get a belt out of you. [back up singers throw some rhythm into it] Some get a kick from cocaine.
    3. Lyle: Hold it, hold it. What the hell is that shit? I meant a song. A real song. Something like, Swing low Sweet chariot. [the workers don't have a clue] Don't know that one, huh? How about "De Camptown Ladies?
    4. Bart: De Camptown Ladies? [other workers echo what Bart said].
    5. Lyle: Yeah. You know. De Camptown ladies sing this song Doo dah doo dah De Camptown race is five miles long Oh the doo dah day [joined by all his cohorts] Going to run all night, going to run all day I'd wage my money on a bobtail nag Somebody bet on the bay Going to run all night, going to run all day I wage my money on a bobtail nag [GUNSHOT in the distance]
    6. Taggart: [rides up] What in the wide world of sports is a-goin' on here? I hired you people to get a little track laid.
    From Blazing Saddles. Submitted by Jordan P (11 days ago)
    1. Bart: Are we awake?
    2. Jim the Waco Kid: We're not sure. Are we black?
    3. Bart: Yes, we are.
    4. Jim the Waco Kid: Then we're awake. But we're very puzzled.
    From Blazing Saddles. Submitted by Jordan P (30 days ago)

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